Daily Links Sep 9

Not just climate change but climate change anxiety is real and the Australian Psychological Society is on to it. Their website psychology.org.au has very good resources under the tab Psychology topics.

Sydney’s strong population growth has not been distributed evenly across the city. As Sydney changes even further over the coming decades, the ongoing population boom will pose a challenge for urban planning.

Some parts of Sydney are better suited to more intense development because of transport infrastructure and the availability of land, planning experts and local councils say, with growth dictated by the Greater Sydney Commission.

Water is fast running out across the Macquarie Valley, in western New South Wales. One town is preparing for the possibility of closing the hospital, if emergency services cannot draw river water to fill fire hydrants.

They may look clean and pristine at first glance, however one beachcomber says trash is littered along our treasured beaches as cigarette butts, dog poo, used tampons and straws clog our summer playgrounds.

In its prime, the thylacine was at the top of the food chain in Australia and its small island to the south. Now, decades after its extinction, the hunt for the Tasmanian tiger is still very much alive.

In the wet-dry topics of Australia, drinking water in remote communities is often sourced from groundwater bores. The geochemistry of that groundwater impacts the occurrence of opportunistic pathogens in the drinking water supply, researchers now report.

An HZB team has for the first time precisely analysed how nanoparticles of lithium sulphide and sulphur precipitate onto battery electrodes during the course of the charging cycle. The results can help increase the service life of lithium-sulphur batteries.

A new study shows a community’s built environment is closely related to how much water single-family residences use. Researchers say factors including vegetated land cover, housing density and lot size appear to have a significant impact on water use.

David Vaccari, an environmental engineer at Stevens Institute of Technology, has created a model that predicts how several different conservation approaches could reduce demand for a nonrenewable resource that is absolutely vital for feeding the world: phosphorus.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose for the fourth straight month in August from a year earlier, according to preliminary government data released on Friday, adding to concerns over fires already ravaging the region.

Climate change is causing grasslands to shift beneath our feet, putting these benefits at risk. Global change — which includes climate change, pollution and other widespread environmental alterations — is transforming grasslands and the plant species in them.